…early retirement and education aren’t “safety valves”… At 8.3%, “headline” unemployment represents 1 in 8 would-be workers without jobs. Furthermore, we know that we’re seeing…
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…retirement is not the answer… The Financial Times has a good April 17, 2012 article looking at the sources of continued high unemployment and declining…
Mike Smitka …Leviathan is the creation of 10-year-olds… What of Leviathan? Let’s rely upon data, here the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Table B-1.…
Two charts. One is the number of employed, compared to where employment should be absent the Great Recession. I’ve not tried to correct this for…
Original post March 3, 2009 on “Autos and Economics” blog, moved here as part of reorganization of my blogs. This has become a hot topic:…